(By Tori Molnar) I started my company, Utoria, when I was only 13, and my mum has always given me guidelines about what I should and shouldn’t be posting on social media. However, through speaking to audiences of peers, I’ve realised that most of you don’t have similar situations. The majority of young adults’ tweets,
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Since Wednesday this week, it’s become harder to avoid WhatsApp messages, or at least claim that you haven’t seen them. The Facebook-owned app has started displaying two blue ticks in the bottom right-hand corner of an individual message to show that it has been read. And clicking on the message will show you the precise
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The button, which will appear at the top of user news feeds, will enable an easy donation to groups such as International Medical Corps, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies and Save the Children. “In times of crisis, people turn to Facebook to learn about what’s happening, share their experiences and
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Facebook has launched a new ‘messageboard’ app allowing people to set up online chat rooms. Called Rooms, it is designed to reignite the online messageboard chat of the early internet. Unlike Facebook, it does not require people to use their real name. ‘One of the magical things about the early days of the web was
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Social media makes many things in life a whole lot easier. Staying on top of the news. Finding out what your friends are up to. Following Harry Styles’ every move. But it also complicates stuff, too. According to a brand-new study, an eyebrow-raising 52% of people between the ages of 13 and 17 believe their
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Over the next few days, Facebook users will see a ‘Privacy Checkup’ appear when they log in. The tool, which began rolling out yesterday, will help users review their privacy settings and control who they are sharing their content with. The system uses a blue dinosaur which guides Facebook users through three steps to navigate
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If you’ve been on Facebook for a long time, we’ve got some bad news for you: Facebook is reportedly working on a feature that will let your friends search through your old posts … by keyword. Bloomberg reported Thursday that the company is testing a new option for the Facebook app that will allow people
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Tweets from accounts that users do not follow will now appear in their Twitter timeline, in a move that has angered users worldwide. The new feature has been confirmed today on Twitter’s support page after users first reported the appearance of content from other accounts last week, with many believing it was just an experiment. Normally,
Snapchat’s popularity isn’t showing any signs of slowing after it leapfrogged Twitter to become the third most used social media app. Almost a third of 18 to 24-year-olds now use the self-destructing messaging app, which is more than double the amount of users the company had in November. Facebook still reigns as the most popular,
Facebook’s quest to bring internet access to the entire planet has seen the company launch a new app that will allow users in Africa to access key services without any data charges. As part of the social network giant’s Internet.org initiative, which has the overall goal of getting the world’s entire population online, the Mark
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